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[last_kodiak]

You humans have grown so attached to your Earth. What is it about that patch of dirt and smoke that you cherish so much?

[He scoffs gently.] You can't even defend it properly. You realize that. If not for the Nietzscheans and the Magog, someone else would have come after you. [He laughs a bit, but it's really without humor.]

It's inevitable.

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Comments

[inhistorybooks]

I'm not totally sure about the history of Earth where you come from, but back home? People have come after us, and we've done just fine.

[This is totally not a sore subject, what makes you think that? :c]

[last_kodiak]

Have you? [Chuckle.] Just wait.

[majorum_pride]

What are you referring to?

[Because, like Trip, the Earth he knew of was a little backwater but fine.]

[last_kodiak]

Your future, of course.

The one you created.

[majorum_pride]

[This is... odd. But it's at least answers.]

The Magog have progressed as far as Earth? [He hates the Magog, hates them so much.] ...And the Nietzcheans?

[last_kodiak]

You did not survive.

Therefore, that future is closed to you.

[Nanomites turn Tyr into a grade A jerk.]

[most_feared]

[Hey! Wait now! Where did this come from? That's like calling him out and saying he sucks at his job. Which he doesn't.]

Harper told me what happened in his timeline. I think circumstances differ slightly in mine.

[last_kodiak]

[SORRY KAY. He'll apologize...later...]

Perhaps so.

But it's only a matter of time before your people scatter.

[most_feared]

I hate to say it [No he doesn't, not at all] My people can usually handle whatever is thrown at them. And they have against things a lot worse than you...

I don't know what the hell a Magog is, though.

[last_kodiak]

[There's a bit of a laugh here.]

Exactly. Maybe I'll show you one day.

[victimofnoone]

Because it's more than just dirt and smoke and there's no point giving up on something just because it might be gone later. If you really believe that? Then I feel bad for poor Jim.

Besides, it's the little things you wouldn't even begin to know unless you've been there.

[last_kodiak]

Poor Jim. Yes. Let's feel badly for poor Jim because his warden doesn't let him believe in rainbows and sunshine.

I've been there.

[victimofnoone]

More like: poor Jim because his warden's judging things and people before he even checks them out.

[last_kodiak]

Welcome to the real world.

[timesbureaucrat]

[Even if Narvin's not keen on Earth itself, destroyed home planets are a bit of a sore spot for him.]

In my universe, hostile species attempt to destroy or enslave Earth on a regular basis, yet somehow the apes manage to hold on to their rock through the millennia.

[last_kodiak]

Then your humans are more resilient than mine.